Machine for luring or pouncing hats



(No Model.)

D. W. GITOHELL MACHINE POR LURING 0R POUNCING HATS.

No. 373,888. Patented Nov. 29, 18 87.

N. FEIERS. Phnm-um nmr. WMnglon, ll Q UNITED STATES PATENT OFFICE.

- DELOS W. GITOHELL, OF MIDDLETOWN, NEW YORK.

MACHINE FOR LURlNG OR POUNCING HATS.

SPECIFICATION forming part of Letters Patent No. 373,888, dated November 29, 1887.

Application filed April 4, 1887.

Serial No. 233,580. (No model.)

1b all whom it may concern.-

Be it known that I, DELos W. GiToHELL, of Middletown, in the county of Orange and State of New York, have invented a new and useful Improvement in Machines for Luring or Bouncing Hats, of which the following is a specification.

The principal object of my invention is to provideamachiueo'f simplecharacter whereby the under side of the brim maybe given as good a surface as the other part of the hat preparatory to ironing. or, in other words, to so prepare the under surface of the brim that by ironing it will receive a better finish. The invention may, however, be applied to pouncingmachines.

The invention consists, essentially, in the combination,with a pair of feed-rolls for grasping between them the brim of a hat and im-- parting a circular motion to the hat, of a wheel having a luring or pouncing surface arranged at the side of the rolls and to rotate in a plane transverse to the plane of rotation of the rolls, whereby the wheel will operate to lure or pounce the under side of the brim radially from the center outward. I also preferably combine with the aforesaid parts a pressingpad above the wheel and connections through which the pad may be actuated by a treadle to hold the brim of the hat upon the wheel.

The invention also consists in the combination, in a machine for luring or lustering hatbrims, of a wheel having a luring or lustering surface and a pad for pressing the face of the brim against said surface.

In the accompanying drawings, Figure 1 is a side elevation of a machine embodying my invention, and Fig. 2 is a plan thereof.

Similar letters of reference designate corresponding parts in both figures.

A A designate upper and lower feed-rolls, which are represented as made in theform of frusta of cones, and which are upon shafts B B. Owing to the conical form of the feedrolls, the shafts B B are divergent from the feed-rolls toward their outer ends, and upon the upper roll-shaft, B, may be arranged a belt-pulley, B while the lower shaft may be driven by gear-wheels B from the upper shaft. The lower roll-shaft, B, is journaled in suitable bearings, b, in the lower fixed frame portion, 0, and in order to provide for properly adjusting the feeding-surfaces of the two rolls one to the other, I mount the upper roll-shaft,

B, in bearings b',which are formed in the upper frame portion, 0, made separate from and adjustable relatively to the lower frame portion. I have represented the upper frame portion, 0, as hinged at c to the main lower frame portion, 0, adjacent to the feed-rolls A A, and the opposite end of the upper frame portion is adj ustably connected with the lower frame portion by means of a screw, 0, and nuts 0, as shown in Fig. 1.

It will be understood that when the brim of a hat is subjected to the two feeding-rolls A A it will be fed forward or moved in the arc of a circle and subjected to the luring-wheel D, secured upon a shaft, D, which is mounted upon suitable bearings, d,,upon the frame portion 0. The wheel D is arranged at the side of the feed-rolls AA, and is rotated in a plane transverse to the plane of rotation of the feedrolls, or substantially parallel with the plane of the axes of said rolls.

The luring-wheel D may be rotated by a driving-belt passing over apulley, d; and in order to make this wheel more effective in its action on the hat I employ above it a pad, E, which is fixed upon the end of a lever, E, fulcrumed at e to a post, E". From the lever Earod, E extends downward through a suitable guide, 6', on the post F. to a treadle, E, which has arranged below or upon it a table, G, on which the machine is placed. A spring,e, surrounds the rod E between the lever E and the guide 6, and exercises an upward pressureupon the lever E, which is suflicient to hold the pad E normally away from the surface of the wheel D.

When a hat is introduced betweenthe feedrolls A A, the pad E is brought down, in order to press the hat-brim in close contact with the luring-wheel D,by the depression of the treadle E, and the pad is held down until the brim of the hat is luring throughout its entire surface. The luring or pouncing performed by the wheel D is in lines substantially radial to the center of the hat, and by the feed-rolls A A a substantiall y circular motion is given to the hat.

For luring wool hats the luring-surface of IOO the wheel D should be of wool but for fur hats or silk. 7 It will be understood that by covering the wheel D with pounciug material the machine can be employed for pouncing hats.

I am aware of Patents No. 46.552, granted February 28, 1865, to Eiekemeyer, and No. 69,277, granted September 24, 1867, to Vail, and do not claim as of myinvention anything shown or described therein. Important ele' ments of my machine are a pair of feed-rolls for grasping the brim of a hat and imparting to the hat asubstantially circular motion, and a pouncing or luring wheel arranged to rotate at the side of the feed-rol1s and in a plane transverse to the plane of rotation of the rolls, so that the wheel will pounce or lure in lines substantially radial to the hat and on the under side of the brim. Such a combination of rolls and luring or pouncing wheel is, I believe, new, and the patent to Eickemeyer is for a machine for pouncing a conical-hat body before the brim is formed.

What I claim as my invention, and desire to secure by Letters Patent, is-

l. The combination,with a pair of feed-rolls for grasping between them the brim of a hat and imparting a circular motion to the hat, of a wheel having a luring or pouncing surface arranged at the side of the rolls and to rotate in a plane transverse to the plane of rotation of the rolls, whereby the wheel will operate to lure or pounce the under side of the brim radially from the center outward, substantially as and for the purpose herein described.

2. The combination,with a pair of feed-rolls for grasping between them the brim of a hat and imparting a circular motion to the hat, of a wheel having a luring or pouncing surface arranged at the side of the rolls and to rotate in a plane transverse to the plane of rotation of the rolls, whereby the wheel will operate to lure or pounce the under side of the brim in substantially radial lines from the center outward,a pressing-pad arranged above the wheel, and connect-ions through which the pad may be actuated by a treadle to hold the brim of the hat upon the wheel, substantially as herein described.

3. The combination, in a machine for luring or lustering hat-brims, of a wheel having a luring or lustering surface and a pad for pressv ing thehat brim against said surface, substantially as herein described.

DELOS \V. GITOHELL. Vitncsscs:

FREDK. HAYNES, HENRY J. MCBRIDE. 

